UN tells Elon Musk to monitor “harmful disinformation” and “hate speech”

The UN’s high commissioner for human rights, Volker Türk, has sent an open letter to Twitter’s new owner Elon Musk, asking him to ensure that Twitter respects human rights and monitors hate speech and misinformation.

In the letter, Türk said he was writing with “concern and apprehension about our digital public square and Twitter’s role in it.”

Türk also said that there is a need to monitor hate speech and disinformation, noting that free speech should not be a “free pass.”